Calendars & Events

New Orleans calendar for June 7, 2013

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Advocate file photo -- A model of the Formosan termite, a New Orleans nemesis, sits on display at the Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium. The Insectarium is offering Louisiana residents a special admission price on Tuesdays through the end of the year.

WEDNESDAYS ON THE POINT: 6 p.m.-9 p.m., 200 Morgan St., Algiers (riverside where the Algiers Ferry Terminal meets the levee). Live music by Flow Tribe and Melomania. Arts and crafts vendors and food. Free. (504) 362-6436.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

MEET THE AUTHOR: noon, Orientation Center and Museum Store, National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., New Orleans. Susan Morrison will discuss her book Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature and Growing up in Wartime America. http://www.nationalww2museum.org or (504) 528-1944, ext. 229.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: 900 Camp St., New Orleans. Beyond ‘Beasts’: The Art of Court 13, through Sunday, June 16. Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, through Sunday, June 16. After You’ve Been Burned by Hot Soup You Blow in Your Yogurt by Margot Herster, through Aug. 18; I’m Not Lost, Just Undiscovered, CAC Teen Board Curated Exhibition, through June 16. (504) 528-3800.

KELLER LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTER: 4300 S. Broad St., New Orleans, (504) 596-2660. My Neighborhood is Changing, a photo exhibit by children in the Lower 9th Ward, chronicling the unique character and beauty of this neighborhood in transition, through Monday, July 15.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM-CABILDO: 751 Chartres St., New Orleans. The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb Pottery of New Orleans, major exhibition of Newcomb art pottery, through September. (504) 568-6968 or http://www.crt.state.la.us/museum/properties/cabildo.aspx.

EW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans. FOREVER mural by Odili Donald Odita, through October. Portrait of Faith: John Paul II in Life and Art, through Sunday, June 16. (504) 658-4100 or http://noma.org.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: 925 Camp St., New Orleans. To Paint and Pray: The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. and Eudora Welty: Photographs From the 1930s and ’40s, through Sunday, July 14. When You’re Lost, Everything’s A Sign: Self-Taught Art From The House of Blues, through Sunday, July 21. Ongoing: Walter Inglis Anderson: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Southern Regionalists from the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. http://www.ogdenmuseum.org or (504) 539-9600.